BIOGRAPHY

Alistair Byrne has particular expertise in pension fund investment and defined contribution pension schemes. He began his career in investment management at AEGON Asset Management, where he was investment strategist and head of equity research. Alistair has also held academic positions at the University of Edinburgh and Strathclyde business schools and has run his own financial services consultancy business.

Alistair has a PhD in finance from the University of Strathclyde and is a CFA charter holder. His research has been published in a number of academic and professional journals, including the Financial Analysts Journal. He is also a visiting fellow at the Pensions Institute at Cass Business School and a principal of Investit.

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Seamus Gillen spent many years working in Whitehall, and was Private Secretary and adviser to John Prescott MP, Deputy Prime Minister, and John Gummer MP, Secretary of State for the Environment. He moved into industry as the Company Secretary and Director of Regulation of Anglian Water [later AWG] and was subsequently Head of Public Policy at mmO2. He left to set up his own company advising businesses on strategic disclosure, reputational risk and corporate responsibility, and advises AEIA on governance and public policy issues. Seamus is an MBA and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators.

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Philip Ingman FRICS MSI is managing partner of Ingman Jones LLP and a director of Strutt & Parker Real Estate Financial Services Ltd. Prior to that he was at London & Edinburgh Trust plc and then SPP, the Swedish pension fund, as CIO, where he helped set up the fund management division, Celexa. During the 1990s Celexa was one of the best performing real estate asset managers with consistently good performance. Ingman Jones provides independent advice on all kinds of property backed investment to institutional, professional and high new worth clients.

Philip is Honorary Treasurer of the Investment Property Forum and is a Faculty Board member for the IPF Investment Education Program and represents the RICS in relation to REITS and Authorised Property Trusts. He is a regular speaker at conferences on indirect investments and private client needs.

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Trevor Robinson’s entire business career has been spent in the derivatives markets. Having worked as a stockbroker, he was appointed Head of Derivatives at Scottish Provident, Edinburgh, in 1987. Three years later he became Head of Derivatives and a Director of Fidelity International, where he was responsible for all derivatives transactions, covering equities, bonds and currencies. Trevor has helped UK regulators design and implement rules on how derivatives should be used in unit trusts and insurance funds. He has also served on the Institutional Advisory Group of LIFFE and on committees for the Securities Institute and the UK Futures and Options Association.

In 1994, Trevor set up his own company which specialises in advising institutional investors on the sensible and appropriate use of derivatives in their investment portfolios, in particular their proper control. He authored a booklet entitled ‘Equity Derivatives Made Simple’ for the NAPF and also advises on alternative investments such as hedge funds.